Court rules hos­pi­tal chiefs’ dis­missal was not jus­ti­fied

In a rul­ing made pub­lic yes­ter­day, the Coun­cil of State up­held ap­peals against de­ci­sions by the Health Min­istry in 2015 to dis­miss di­rec­tors and man­agers at Greek state hospi­tals. Out of 71 di­rec­tors and man­agers at hospi­tals who were eval­u­ated by the min­istry in 2015, the year that the SYRIZA-In­de­pen­dent Greeks coali­tion took power, 59 were dis­missed. The court up­held ap­peals lodged by 10 of those em­ploy­ees, deem­ing that the eval­u­a­tions that were car­ried out did not jus­tify their dis­missal.